Wisconsin Farm Family Featured in Toby Keith song

I liked Toby Keith after his appearance on the Colbert Christmas Special, but still mostly hate his over the top uber-American music. But despite the massive amount of patriotic syrup, Made in American  is Wisconsin. The only reason I'm mentioning it here, and posting the song, is that the concert footage is from Keith's appearance at Summerfest, and the family featured in the video hail from the Town of Addison, and their farm.

Warning, the flag waving self righteousness is overpowering, almost debilitating. Just posting it here on Democurmudgeon might make the site implode like the house at the end of the movie Poltergeist.

Fox 6: The farm of a Washington County family is featured prominently in the new Toby Keith music video for his single, "Made In America." Most of the music video was shot at Summerfest during Keith's visit to the Big Gig on July 1st and later at the family farm. The Town of Addison farm featured in the Keith video is owned by Bob and Mary Ihlenfeld. It's been a part of Bob's family since 1953. Mary Ihlenfeld tells FOX6Now.com, the Keith producers found their farm through an interesting set of circumstances.


Mary's daughter-in-law Carly had a friend who was friends with an associate producer for the Keith crew. The rest is history. Ihlenfeld says the Keith video crew came to their farm on July 3rd and 4th. She says their farm was selected in large part because their farmhouse was exactly what the producers were looking for; traditional Americana. It didn't hurt that the Ihlenfelds also hung bunting on their porch to celebrate the 4th of July.

While the Ihlenfeld's farm is the "star" of the music video, a snapshot of Mary and Bob and then another with their family is featured in the video. There's also video of a couple of their grandsons jumping off a lake platform and enjoying a slip-and-slide.